# fatum
## Latin
### Etymology

From fātus, perfect active participle of for (“speak”).

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈfaː.tum/, [ˈfäːt̪ʊ̃ˑ]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈfa.tum/, [ˈfäːt̪um]

### Noun

fātum n (genitive fātī); second declension
* destiny, fate, lot
    Synonyms: fortūna, sors, necessitās
    alicuius fatum est/ alicui fatum est + infinitive ― someone is fated to ...
** 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 1.1–3:Arma virumque canō, Trōiae quī prīmus ab ōrīs Ītaliam, fātō profugus, Lāvīniaque vēnit lītora, [...].I sing of arms and a man, exiled by fate, who first came from the coasts of Troy to Italy and the shores of Lavinium. (Here, “by fate” [fātō] is an ablative of cause, meaning “because of,” or “on account of.” The epic of Aeneas and his band of refugees begins: divine fate compels their actions and will propel the story. See: Aeneid, Troy, Italy, Lavinium.)
* (in the plural) death
    Synonyms: mors, fūnus, exitus, perniciēs, interitus, somnus, fīnis, sopor
* (of a god) speech
* utterance, declaration, proclamation, prediction, prophecy
    Synonyms: praedictiō, praedictum, prophētīa
** 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 1.481–482:sīc erat in fātīs; nec tē tua culpa fugāvit, sed deusThus it was in the prophecies: no fault of yours has exiled you, but a god.

#### Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

#### Derived terms

* Fāta
* fātidicus
* fātifer
* fātiloquus

#### Descendants

* Catalan: fat
* → English: fate
* Italian: fato
* Old French: feie
* Portuguese: fado
* Spanish: hado
* → Proto-Brythonic: *fọd
** Middle Welsh: ffawt
*** Welsh: ffawd

#### See also

* fātus

### Participle

fātum
* inflection of fātus:
** nominative/accusative/vocative neuter singular
** accusative masculine singular

### References

* “fatum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* fatum in Enrico Olivetti, editor (2003-2025), Dizionario Latino, Olivetti Media Communication
* “fatum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
* “fatum”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

## Old English
### Noun

fatum
* dative plural of fæt

## Polish
### Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin fātum.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈfa.tum/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -atum
* Syllabification: fa‧tum

### Noun

fatum n
* destiny, fate, doom, jinx

#### Declension
### Further reading

* fatum in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
* fatum in Polish dictionaries at PWN

## Romanian
### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Latin fatum.

### Noun

fatum n (uncountable)
* fate

#### Declension
## Serbo-Croatian
### Etymology

From Latin fatum.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /fǎːtum/
* Hyphenation: fa‧tum

### Noun

fátum m (Cyrillic spelling фа́тум)
* fate, destiny

#### Declension
### References

* “fatum”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025

## West Makian
### Etymology

May be the same as West Makian fatung (“to sniff”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈɸa.t̪um/

### Verb

fatum
* (transitive) to smell (something)

#### Conjugation
### References

* Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours‎, Pacific linguistics